Requisition ID: 109208-1
Title:Sr GCP Cloud Architect
Duration: 6-12 months with possible extension
Location:Sunnyvale CA
Salary Range: $48- $51 an hour on W2/C2C
Job Description:
• Lead architecture, implementation, and operations of secure, reliable, and cost-efficient solutions on Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong candidate with Hands on experience in GCP, Terraform and scripting and automation
Responsibilities
• Architect and deliver GCP workloads using Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL/Spanner, Pub/Sub.
• Build infrastructure as code and CI/CD (Terraform, Cloud Build, Git) with environment promotion and guardrails.
• Implement identity and security controls (IAM, service accounts, Secrets Manager, KMS, org policies, VPC Service Controls).
• Design scalable networking (VPCs, subnets, NAT, load balancers, Private Service Connect) and interconnectivity.
• Establish observability and SRE practices (Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Error Reporting; SLIs/SLOs, alerting, runbooks).
• Develop data platforms and pipelines with BigQuery, Dataflow/Beam, Composer/Airflow, Dataproc; batch and streaming.
• Automate operations with Cloud Functions/Run and APIs; drive reliability, performance, and cost optimization.
• Lead incident response and postmortems; mentor engineers and document standards.
Qualifications
• 8+ years in cloud/platform/data engineering, including 4+ years hands-on with GCP.
• Strong Linux, containers, and Kubernetes fundamentals; GKE experience preferred.
• Expertise in IAM, networking, security best practices, and secrets management on GCP.
• Proficiency in Terraform, CI/CD, Python or Go, and SQL; solid schema/design and performance tuning skills.
• Proven ownership of production systems, on-call, and resilience improvements.
Preferred
• Multi-project org/folder design and centralized policy controls.
• FinOps, quota management, and cost governance.
• Migration experience from on-prem or other clouds."
Role Descriptions: Sr GCP Cloud Architect 8 yearsSummaryLead architecture implementation and operations of secure reliable and costefficient solutions on Google Cloud PlatformStrong candidate with Hands on experience in GCP Terraform and scripting and automation ResponsibilitiesArchitect and deliver GCP workloads using Compute Engine GKE Cloud Run Cloud Storage Cloud SQLSpanner PubSubBuild infrastructure as code and CICD Terraform Cloud Build Git with environment promotion and guardrailsImplement identity and security controls IAM service accounts Secrets Manager KMS org policies VPC Service ControlsDesign scalable networking VPCs subnets NAT load balancers Private Service Connect and interconnectivityEstablish observability and SRE practices Cloud Monitoring Logging Error Reporting SLIsSLOs alerting runbooksDevelop data platforms and pipelines with BigQuery DataflowBeam ComposerAirflow Dataproc batch and streamingAutomate operations with Cloud FunctionsRun and APIs drive reliability performance and cost optimizationLead incident response and postmortems mentor engineers and document standardsQualifications
Essential Skills: Sr GCP Cloud Architect 8 yearsSummaryLead architecture implementation and operations of secure reliable and costefficient solutions on Google Cloud PlatformStrong candidate with Hands on experience in GCP Terraform and scripting and automation ResponsibilitiesArchitect and deliver GCP workloads using Compute Engine GKE Cloud Run Cloud Storage Cloud SQLSpanner PubSubBuild infrastructure as code and CICD Terraform Cloud Build Git with environment promotion and guardrailsImplement identity and security controls IAM service accounts Secrets Manager KMS org policies VPC Service ControlsDesign scalable networking VPCs subnets NAT load balancers Private Service Connect and interconnectivityEstablish observability and SRE practices Cloud Monitoring Logging Error Reporting SLIsSLOs alerting runbooksDevelop data platforms and pipelines with BigQuery DataflowBeam ComposerAirflow Dataproc batch and streamingAutomate operations with Cloud FunctionsRun and APIs drive reliability performance and cost optimizationLead incident response and postmortems mentor engineers and document standardsQualifications
Desirable Skills:
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